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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not sure I really even need to write this at length because Nivi absolutely nailed the topic in his article “ The Option Pool Shuffle.&#. When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle. No option pool shuffle.

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Twitter Link Roundup #202 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Can you believe this is Roundup number 200!?!?

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How to Raise Investor Funding for Your Startup

Early Growth Financial Services

Check out the full video or read my take for some of the highlights. Valuation — Know what these terms mean: Fully-diluted — This includes all issued stock and anything that could be converted into common stock (typically after an acquisition or IPO), such as your stock option pool.

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2021 Predictions

Eric Friedman

With the stock price off since IPO and the need to “rollup” enterprise chat + video MSFT takes a swing at solving a huge b2b problem with a startup friendly platform. The 13 year bull run ends, and we go into a decline/recession scenario. Money printer goes brrrrr 7/ Microsoft buys Slack. No, but Salesforce bought slack.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Skype and Zoom are useful for video/audio conferences. The Long Term Stock Exchange is building out a set of tools for founders for managing their cap tables, 409A valuations, cash on hand, options pool, investor relations, etc.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. Convince him to work on yours part-time — he’ll drop his idea once yours gets traction. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a.

Cofounder 101
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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

One day, I watched a Y Combinator video about how to incorporate a startup through Clerky. After confirming it in prayer, I was off to New York City. New York City Not long after arriving in NY, I threw myself into learning about as much as I can about startups and how it all works.